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Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples´ Lives
Janet Hoskins
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Description for Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples´ Lives
Paperback. In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions. Num Pages: 224 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFC; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 332.
In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions--domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and self-historicizing. Janet Hoskins explores how things are given biographical significance and entangled in sexual politics, expressed in dualistic metaphors where the familiar distinctions between person and object and female and male are drawn in unfamiliar ways. Biographical Objects is an ethnography of persons which takes the form of a study of things, showing how the object is not only a metaphor for the ... Read more
In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions--domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and self-historicizing. Janet Hoskins explores how things are given biographical significance and entangled in sexual politics, expressed in dualistic metaphors where the familiar distinctions between person and object and female and male are drawn in unfamiliar ways. Biographical Objects is an ethnography of persons which takes the form of a study of things, showing how the object is not only a metaphor for the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415920124
SKU
V9780415920124
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Ref
99-2
About Janet Hoskins
Janet Hoskins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars,History and Exchange (1993), winner of the 1996 Benda prize in Southeast Asian studies.
Reviews for Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples´ Lives
"[T]he book's heart really lies in the vicissitudes of personal experience, and the ethnographer's relationships with certain individuals. In this respect, the book properly takes its place among other recent works that center on the particularities of experience. Here the author's long fieldwork in Kodi serves her well."
Indonesia "The stories are beautifully told, and Hoskins makes it easy ... Read more
Indonesia "The stories are beautifully told, and Hoskins makes it easy ... Read more